misc Hair-Raising Halloween--Coffee Style Welcome, children, to a very special Halloween episode of the Trimethyldioxypurist. We have an update, an experiment, and a couple reviews of some coffee beans. When we think "candy," we obviously first think
misc The Expense of Hawaiian Coffee On Friday we wanted to drink Kona. It's stupid, we know -- not like Grandma was in the coffee business. Did she even drink coffee? We don't know. Tea, certainly. She used to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Charles Siegel There are few things as beloved as chocolate--it can change moods, please crowds, make an otherwise forgettable event suddenly memorable. It's magical. And it can concern us sometimes, as with recent local chocolatiers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Karma=Good Coffee? Indeed. Ah, it's times like this that we wish we really wish we could describe "taste" better. We found a really nice coffee -- from a local roaster no less -- and when we
misc You Put Your Mocha Java In My Chocolate! With some fair frequency in this column and elsewhere, we've bemoaned the loss of local business to the big guys, whether by corporate buyout or the sort of overproliferation that can present a
misc Not Much Elbow Room At Union Square Cafe We'll admit it -- we set our expectations far too high. We finally broke down -- we decided to try one of those "$4 cup of coffee" places. We went to Emporio Rulli
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe For The (Accidental) Soccer Mom? You Bet! Strange weekend. We're almost exclusively pedestrians, but every so often we're forced to go through the hell that is renting a car. While we hate driving, we were more than happy to make
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spiked! Good Coffee In The Castro While our list of reader-recommended coffee houses to try is growing, we didn't have a chance to cross any places off of it this week. That's because we happened across a wonderful little
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Counter-Intuitive Search For Coffee The last time we actually posted something in this column (as opposed to our contest cop-out), it ended with something like, "blah blah, sick of chalk menus, blah blah, cafes are all the
SF News Political Junkie: Starbuckses versus Pot Clubs Here we are, stepping blithely into Trimeth/Essefficist/SFist Tokes territory, to report that Supervisor Sean Elsbernd (no iPod) has announced that he's calling for a moratorium on pot clubs in the city,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Craps Out ( . . And You Can Win!) As may be the case with many coffee aficionados, breakfast is our favorite meal. Cuz we get to drink coffee with it. Oh sure, we drink coffee with dinner too, but the a.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Overcaffeination in Mission Dolores Sunday was a beautiful day. Unless, we suppose, you're out of your head. It started at Maxfield's House of Caffeine, at 398 Dolores Street. We love the name of the place. We walked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trimethyldioxypurism (Read: Damn Good Coffee) Abundant At New Mission Spot Ritual Coffee, at 1026 Valencia Street in the Mission, opened just a few weeks ago and already appears to have a loyal following. And why not? Our first thoughts as we walked in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Hits A Downtown Sweet Spot While some time ago, we advised using corporate coffee houses in a pinch when you're in a strange town, we're beginning to believe that French bakeries should be our new default places to
misc The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets Sentimental Your overwhelming response from the survey last week pretty much indicated that you are happy to have your Trimethyldioxypurist continue to serve as the rudder on this ship. In other words, thanks for
